Hi Mark,
Thanks for the prompt reply. I'll try with Filter for (1). I figured out
what I did wrong with (2). I was missing the HTML attribute 'name' for the
text input. It's been a couple years since I've wrote a HTML page.
Thanks again for your help,
Tommy
On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 1:48 PM Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> wrote:
> On 14/06/2019 21:10, Tommy Pham wrote:
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > I'm trying to write a lightweight and hopefully simple ContextListener +
> > Servlet application but running into 2 issues I'm unable to find
> resolution
> > for and hoping someone would please point me in the right direction:
> >
> > 1) I'd like to have Tomcat's default servlet serve HTML files only
> within
> > directory /path/ and its' subdirectories. However, I can only get it to
> > work with this URL mapping "/path/*". My understanding is that the
> default
> > servlet will serve any files within /path/. Can this be done with URL
> path
> > mapping or do I need to write a custom filter? My servlet's mapping is
> > "/". Tomcat's default servlet mapping has "/css/*", "/js/*", "/img/*",
> and
> > "/path/*".
>
> It depends. If there are alternative mappings (with a higher priority)
> for all the other static files under /path/* then the DefaultServlet
> will only serve what is left.
>
> A filter might be the cleanest way to ensure you get the behaviour you
> want.
>
> > 2) I Have this small and simple HTML form:
> > <form method="post">
> > <p><input id="text" type="text" size="80"></p>
> > <p><input type="submit" value="enter"></p>
> > </form>
> > My servlet's doPost is triggered but when I iterate the
> > request.getParameterMap(), it's empty. When I tried to
> > request.getParameter("text"), it returned 'null'. I do have a filter in
> > place but it's only to log all request access to a database backend
> > eventually. That filter is currently dumping it to log. I've tried
> > disabling the filter but have the same result.
>
> You need:
> <form method="post" enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded">
>
> Mark
>
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